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Familial forms : politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature
- Title
- Familial forms : politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature / Erin Murphy.
- Author
- Murphy, Erin, 1971-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- 307 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Discusses the fate of the family=state analogy in 17th century English literature.
- Subject
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Genealogy > Political aspects > History > Great Britain > 17th century
- Families > Political aspects > History > Great Britain > 17th century
- Genealogy in literature
- Families in literature
- Inheritance and succession in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Assessing the politics of genealogy. The Jesuit, the King, and a lady: form and Jacobean patriarchalism -- John Milton's family politics from Charles I to Charles II. Denying patricide; defining the domestic. Copulating with the mother: Paradise lost and the politics of begetting. Milton's birth abortive: remaking family at the end of Paradise lost -- Chasing shadows: reproductive time in the exclusion crisis. Haunted times. Cheating "death's vast jaws": the troubled promise of reproduction in Lucy Hutchison's Order and disorder. "In his son renew'd": resisting reproduction in John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel -- Beyond the family-state analogy: reconsidering genealogy. A world without father or mother: Mary Astell's A serious proposal to the ladies.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2291
- ISBN
- 9781611490107 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1611490103 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781611490114 (electronic)
- 1611490111 (electronic)
- 087413093X (alk. paper)
- 9780874130935 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010006335
- OCLC
- 537652370
- Author
- Murphy, Erin, 1971-
- Title
- Familial forms : politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature / Erin Murphy.
- Imprint
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2291